Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lily, sister of love, rosy, full-limbed but of infinitely more grace than the women of Rubens, had returned to the town in Ohio to bury her mother. The mother had died as bitter protest against the smoke and soot which factories shot upon her gardened mansion. Out of the factories had come human wretchedness. Into the wretchedness had gone Irene, sister of virtue, to find in Christian charity what Pagan love had denied her. To her goodness a giant had been drawn, a socialist Galahad. But when he had run from the bullets of the strikebreakers into the gardened...
...more than ever before the presidential race next fall with be between men rather than parties. It is generally conceded that the convention in Cleveland will be short and decisively for the renomination of President Coolidge. Not so the New York convention. There the struggle should be long and bitter; but only if a recognized leader of great ability and vigor is chosen--and Governor Smith at present looms large in that capacity--will there be much question of carrying the decision to the House of Representatives...
...inexorable experts droned on, grinding out a plan for German Reparations. When the Anglo-Saxon bankers three weeks ago forced Poincaré to agree to accept the Dawes report, the tough, wiry little French Premier had to swallow a big, bitter pill. But when the swelling volume of anticipatory roars, groans and squeals arose from across the Rhine and when the very idea of such a plan gave gooseflesh to the goose-steppers, the French decided that the Dawes plan might not be such a bad thing after...
...exists regarding the automobile industry. The stock market has recently assumed a somewhat sceptical tone on this subject; stocks of prominent motor companies have experienced marked drops. In Wall Street the talk is mostly of overproduction, inflation by sales on part-payment, diminishing margin of profit, increased and bitter competition and similar gloomy matters. On the other hand, the trade in its announcements and its advertising fails to share this melancholy tone. Alfred P. Sloan, Vice President of General Motors, declared sales of his cars to dealers this Spring would be 20% greater than last year, while stocks of cars...
...significance of the assumption of the functions of Chairman by Dean Briggs was much deeper than the mere change in leaders, for the devotion and efficiency of his predecessor was unquestioned. Dean Briggs' election followed a period of bitter attack upon all phases of intercollegiate athletics, and the new Committee took office with the virtual understanding that upon the success of its control of athletic policies depended the very future of competitive sports between Harvard and other colleges...